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...Fourth Amendment regarding search and seizure of an individual or his property do not necessarily apply. The amendment specifies that a search may not be "unreasonable," and it indicates that authorities can obtain a search warrant only for "probable cause" that something illegal will be found. But, wrote Justice Byron White for the majority, any public school student can be searched by school officials without a warrant and upon nothing more than "reasonable grounds for suspecting that the search will turn up evidence that the student has violated or is violating either the law or the rules of the school...
...interest; reading it is like screening other people's dreams--at once intriguing and familiar. For Sylvia Plath's need to write in her notebook when she is "at wits' end, in a cul-de- sac. Never when I am happy" is not unique to depressed poets. Lord Byron notes, "Clock strikes--going out to make love. Somewhat perilous, but not disagreeable." Boswell reports, "I awaked at noon, with a severe head-ach. I was much vexed that I should have been guilty of such a riot . . ." These and scores of similar entries defy decades and space. They might have...
...three of them meet up in Cleveland, then drive to Florida for two improbable plot twists. There are only 67 shots, each separated from the next by a few seconds of blackness, and three funny bits. Artfully done, with offhand references to directors ranging from Byron Haskin to Yasujiro Ozu, Stranger Than Paradise has the odd odor of something left too long behind Aunt Bela's chintz couch. Yet it has been extravagantly praised and is a box-office success in its Manhattan debut. Rarely has a movie so fetid been so feted...
...very difficult to monitor that sort of thing. I presume most states would not have the ability," said Byron A. Hartley, director of financial assistance at Boston University...
Like the title of her 14th book, The Weaker Vessel, the irony in her own life is apparent. She comes from a long literary tradition. Her mother, Elizabeth, has written biographies of Queen Victoria, Wellington, Byron and Elizabeth II. Her father, Frank Pakenham, was an Oxford don and inherited his title, the Earl of Longford. Fraser's siblings are novelists and poets...